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How do musical instruments produce sound?
History & The Arts

How do musical instruments produce sound?

...courses. Here’s a strange question: how many different kinds of instruments are there? Well, the western orchestra has up to thirty different types of instruments. But that does not typically include instruments we recognise every day in popular music, or instruments found in other cultures around the world. It does not include ancient music, nor those waiting to be...
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DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes

...course, which explores the frontiers of research and the applications of contemporary chemistry. For A level and other science courses aimed at 16 to 19-year olds. Fraser A. and Gilchrist I., Starting Science (Book 1), Oxford University Press Part of an integrated science course for the National Curriculum Key Stage 3 and Scottish Environmental Studies (science) for S1...
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Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
Money & Business

Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?

...free of charge in real terms. On paper, this is a golden age for gilts, the bonds issued by the UK Treasury named after their certificates’ gilded edge. The government’s cost of borrowing, as measured by yields on those gilts, has fallen steadily from more than 12% in the early 1990s to less than 1%. Economic slowdowns, political shocks, the 2008 global financial...
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Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...free fall, and being in the absence of a gravitational field, say in deep space. Transcript This principle led Einstein to consider incorporating gravity into the framework of his special theory of relativity, culminating in his General Theory of Relativity. At face value, that doesn’t appear such a difficult thing to do. Until this point, the properties of objects in...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...Courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, open access research – all of these impact on academic work and academic workers. In trying to make sense of this new world, discourse around digital technology in the academe can often result in polarising categories. On the one hand, we find the glorified hype of the Web 2.0. version of the university: the digital classrooms of the...
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Exercising at 50
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercising at 50

...Accessed 19 March 2019). Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course Discover more about exercising Study with the OU...
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How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...courses and qualifications. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of great stress for carers. They have endured decreased access to support services and social support, decreased time to look after themselves and difficulties maintaining the physical and emotional health of themselves and their loved one, in the face of national and local restrictions. For many carers,...
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...free & unknown; we can return early the following morning.’ She waited for his reply in Hamilton Place, a short connecting street between Park Lane and Piccadilly. Byron sent his reply along with a copy of the Morning Post for her to read, for all the world as if she were in a dentist’s waiting room. It contained an article criticising him for writing two poems on his...
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